occulted

past tense of occult

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of occulted There’s rarely anything as straightforward as a kick drum, a hi-hat, or even a bassline here; instead, everything is smeared, all origins occulted in a thicket of echoes and reflections. Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 4 Aug. 2026 In fact, the speedy planet is occulted (hidden) by the sun's disk, but of course, this event is unobservable. Joe Rao, Space.com, 2 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for occulted
Verb
  • Under-eye shadows, bags and lower-lid definition get played up instead of concealed.
    Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
  • States alleged that Meta’s internal research documented links between Instagram use and harms including depression, anxiety and body-image concerns among young people, while the company publicly minimized or concealed those risks.
    Carolina Rossini, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The lack of a unified Democratic agenda, and the president’s usual reluctance to stay on message, has obscured the trend running under everything.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • She was held up as the pop cultural equivalent of a saint to a degree that sometimes obscured and distorted her creative drive and business acumen.
    Jewly Hight, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That combination, just like QIH, suppressed neuronal firing and stripped out a comparable share of synapses, but the mice came out of it with impaired fear memory.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The unknowns attached to Brooks have understandably kept his ADP suppressed.
    Brad Evans, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The one that looked like it was covered with giant farfalle pasta bows?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Before-and-after images aired by state broadcaster China Central Television showed a multistory building and more than a dozen vehicles covered in mud.
    Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

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“Occulted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occulted. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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